Americans used to have an institution that gave them a steady diet of relevant news. It gave them a healthy mix of local, state, federal and international news

Americans used to have an institution that gave them a steady diet of relevant news. It gave them a healthy mix of local, state, federal and international news in reasonable doses that could be read over dinner. It mainly gave its readers reason to consider whether the darn politicians in $STATE_CAPITAL were doing their damn job or whether the town council really had any reason to be raising taxes. It was called the local newspaper. ~15 years ago, we abandoned this to spend our free time sharing Buzzfeed quizzes with one another.